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ATTENTION TO ALL PERMACULTURE DESIGNERS who want to sink their teeth into a project that has lasting community benefits: Bring your design skills and become involved with the Perma Uni-versity Design then Build Course starting tomorrow, Sunday August 6. For more information call 509 7141108Or email bruce.ruhldesign@gmail.com

See the full schedule atPermauniversity.org

Also Pizza Rita has generously donated $200 in “Rita Bucks” to Perma Uni-versity for a fundraising raffle supporting sustainability and permaculture education! Purchase your set of tickets to potentially win one, or more, $40 slice of the $200 pie!!! Who doesn't like free pizza?$5 will get you 6 tickets for the drawing and $10 will get you 15 tickets!For details visit the Methods of Support &Schwagg Box Page:https://permauniversity.org/support-perma-uni-versity/

Help celebrate the season

I have come under incredible pressure to host a fall harvest festival party for all of the permies and other friends in the area to be held at our farm, Footehills Farm, in Colbert. You can imagine how much it took for me to decide to do this as I tend to be a bit shy and a real homebody. So, let's do it! Potluck, byob, byos(mile), byod(ish). We will provide some meat, beer, wine, music, puns, and chairs. This year there will feature a new picnic table, benches and a firepit. The date is SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11 from, let's say, 2 until whenever. As always we will have room to overnight if needed. Please try to RSVP so we can get at least an idea of how many to expect. Of course, you are welcome to arrive earlier.BTW, the pigs and chickens are all excited about the idea as is Chena the Wonderdog, head of farm security. She suggested I mention BYOD(dogbisquit).

How Growing Food Together Makes Justice Real

Gonzaga’s Environmental Studies Department will host a free public presentation titled “Agriculturally Supported Community: How Growing Food Together Makes Justice Real” on Monday, March 30th in Wolff Auditorium from 7-8 pm. Join urban farmer and educator, Josh Soltnick as he reflects on 15 years of community farming. Drawing up his experience in ecological horticulture, the Peace Corps, as a family farmer, Josh founded the PEAS farm in Missoula, Montana. As a partnership between the University of Montana’s Environmental Studies program and a local non-profit, the PEAS farm functions both as a CSA and as an educational resource for students from elementary school to college graduate programs.

ATTENTION: There will also be a workshop on Tuesday, March 31, from 10:50 - 1:00. Click READ MORE for more information.

Demonstration and Hands On Practice in Butchering a Chicken.

Join us February 22nd (4th Sunday meeting) at 1:00PM for a hands on workshop. Cara Hagar will demo how to butcher a chicken. Anyone who wants to (and brings a chicken to butcher) will have a chance for hands on participation. The workshop will be held at the home of Pat and Andrea Johns. If you bring birds to butcher please withhold food for 24 hrs prior to butchering. It's important for the crop to empty prior to butchering. Do not withhold water.

Maurice Robinette: Pacific Northwest Center for Holistic Management

The Pacific Northwest Center for Holistic Management is able to offer an extension of a special discount rate we got for the Tilth 40 Conference. This amounts to a 40% discount on the new state of the art webinars produced by the Savory Institute. Using this information will guarantee your decisions (any) will meet the triple bottom line. Use the code PNCHM T40 for the discount. (Worth over $250) This isn't just about cows! If any of you heard April Thatcher talk about her farm she has used the process to create good consistent profits above her salaries from her ten acre farm near Vancouver.